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BambooHR

With BambooHR modules in Make, you can manage the employee, employee files, time offs, time off requests, and job summaries in your BambooHR account.

To use the BambooHR modules, you must have a BambooHR account. You can create an account at bamboohr.com/signup.

Refer to the BambooHR API documentation for a list of available endpoints.

Establish the connection with BambooHR in Make

To establish the connection in Make:

  1. Log in to your Make account, add a BambooHR module to your scenario, and click Create a connection.

  2. In the Connection type field, select BambooHR OpenID.

  3. Optional: In the Connection name field, enter a name for the connection.

  4. In the Subdomain field, enter the subdomain you use to access BambooHR. For example, if you access BambooHR at https://mycompany.bamboohr.com, enter mycompany.

  5. Click Save.

  6. If prompted, authenticate your account and confirm access.

You have successfully established the connection. You can now edit your scenario and add more BambooHR modules. If your connection requires reauthorization at any point, follow the connection renewal steps here.

Build BambooHR Scenarios

After connecting the app, you can perform the following actions:

Employees

Watches for added employees.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Limit

Set the maximum number of employees Make should return during one execution cycle.

Watches for newly updated employees.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Since

Indicate a date since which you want to watch updates made to employees.

Type

Select the type of update you want to watch.

Limit

Set the maximum number of updated employees Make should return during one execution cycle.

Returns a list of employees.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Limit

Set the maximum number of employees Make should return during one execution cycle.

Lists all updated employees since a specified date.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Since

Indicate a date since which you want to list updates made to employees.

Type

Select the type of update you want to list.

Limit

Set the maximum number of updated employees Make should return during one execution cycle.

Requests a custom report that includes employees.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Only current employees

Select or map if you want to include data of future-dated employees to a custom report.

Fields

Select or map fields of the custom report you want to get.

Limit

Set the maximum number of custom reports Make should return during one execution cycle.

Returns employee data by specifying a set of fields.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Employee ID

Select or map the Employee ID whose details you want to retrieve.

Fields

Select or map the fields you want to include in the employee details.

Adds a new employee.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Synced with Trax Payroll

Select whether you want to create a Trax payroll employee.

First Name

Enter (map) the employee's first name.

Last Name

Enter (map) the employee's last name.

Employee Number

Enter (map) the employee's number.

Date of Birth

Enter the employee's date of birth.

SSN

Enter the employee's social security number.

Gender

Select or map the employee's gender. For example, male.

Marital Status

Select or map the employee's marital status. For example, Single.

Hire Date

Enter the date on which the employee was hired for the job.

Address

Enter the employee's address.

City

Enter the city name.

State

Enter the state name.

Country

Enter the country name.

Employment Status

Select or map the employment status of the employee.

Exempt

Select whether the employee is exempted from taxes.

Pay Type

Select or map the employee pay type. For example, hourly, weekly.

Pay Rate

Select or map the employee pay rate in US Dollars. For example, if you have selected Pay Type as hourly then enter the employee's hourly rate.

Pay Per

Select or map the frequency of payment to the employee. For example, Monthly.

Location

Select or map the employee location.

Department

Select or map the department to which the employee belongs to. For example, Human Resources.

Division

Enter (map) the division to which the employee belongs to. For example, Europe.

Updates a specified employee.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Employee ID

Select or map the Employee ID whose details you want to update.

Synced with Trax Payroll

Select whether you want to create a Trax payroll employee.

First Name

Enter (map) the employee's first name.

Last Name

Enter (map) the employee's last name.

Employee Number

Enter (map) the employee's number.

Date of Birth

Enter the employee's date of birth.

SSN

Enter the employee's social security number.

Gender

Select or map the employee's gender. For example, male.

Marital Status

Select or map the employee's marital status. For example, Single.

Hire Date

Enter the date on which the employee was hired for the job.

Address

Enter the employee's address.

City

Enter the city name.

State

Enter the state name.

Country

Enter the country name.

Employment Status

Select or map the employment status of the employee.

Exempt

Select whether the employee is exempted from taxes.

Pay Type

Select or map the employee pay type. For example, hourly, weekly.

Pay Rate

Select or map the employee pay rate in US Dollars. For example, if you have selected pay type as hourly then enter the employee's hourly rate.

Pay Per

Select or map the period of payment to the employee. For example, Monthly.

Location

Select or map the employee location.

Department

Select or map the department to which the employee belongs to. For example, Human Resources.

Division

Enter (map) the division to which the employee belongs. For example, Europe.

Employee Files

Returns a list of employee files.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Employee ID

Select or map the Employee ID whose files you want to list.

Limit

Set the maximum number of files Make should return during one execution cycle.

Returns a specified employee file.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Employee ID

Select or map the Employee ID whose files you want to download.

File ID

Select or map the File ID you want to download.

Creates an employee file.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Employee ID

Select or map the Employee ID whose files you want to list.

File Name

Enter the file name including the file extension. For example, test.txt

File

Enter or map the file data.

Share with Employee

Select the checkbox if you want to share the file with an employee.

Updates a specified employee file.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Employee ID

Select or map the Employee ID whose file you want to update.

File ID

Select or map the File ID whose details you want to update.

Share with Employee

Select the checkbox if you want to share the file with an employee.

Category ID

Select or map the Category ID to which the file belongs to.

Name

Enter a new name for the file.

Deletes a specified employee file.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Employee ID

Select or map the Employee ID whose file you want to delete.

File ID

Select or map the File ID whose details you want to delete.

Time Offs

Watches for newly created time-offs for the specified time boundaries.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Start Time

Enter (map) the start time to watch the time-offs that match the specified time. See the list of supported date and time formats.

End Time

Enter (map) the end time to watch the time-offs that match the specified time. See the list of supported date and time formats.

Limit

Set the maximum number of time-offs Make should return during one execution cycle.

Returns a list, sorted by date of employees who will be out and company holidays for a period of time.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Start Time

Enter (map) the start time of the employee off or holiday whose details you want to retrieve. See the list of supported date and time formats.

End Time

Enter (map) the end time of the employee off or holiday whose details you want to retrieve. See the list of supported date and time formats.

Limit

Set the maximum number of employee time offs or holidays Make should return during one execution cycle.

Time Off Requests

Watches for newly created time off requests which can be approved by you.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Start Time

Enter (map) the start time to watch the time-off requests that start on or after the specified time. See the list of supported date and time formats.

End Time

Enter (map) the end time to watch the time-off requests that end on or before the specified time. See the list of supported date and time formats.

Limit

Set the maximum number of time-off requests Make should return during one execution cycle.

Returns a list of time off requests with specified options.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Start Time

Enter (map) the start time to search the time-off requests that start on or after the specified time. See the list of supported date and time formats.

End Time

Enter (map) the end time to search the time-off requests that end on or after the specified time. See the list of supported date and time formats.

Time Off Request ID

Select or map the Time-off Request ID whose details you want to search.

Action

Select or map the time-off requests access to search only the requests that match the specified action:

  • View

  • Approve

Employee ID

Select or map the Employee ID to search the specified employee time-off requests.

Type

Select the time-off request type to search only the request that matches the specified type. For example, Bereavement.

Status

Select the status of the time-off request to search only the request that matches the specified status. For example, Approved.

Limit

Set the maximum number of time-off requests Make should return during one execution cycle.

Changes the status of a time-off request in the system. You can use this to approve or deny, or cancel a time-off request.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Request ID

Select or map the Request ID whose status you want to change.

Status

Select or map the status to which you want to update the request:

  • Approved

  • Denied

  • Canceled

Note

Enter the details for updating the request status.

Job Summaries

Watches for newly created job summaries.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

Limit

Set the maximum number of job summaries Make should return during one execution cycle.

Status

Select the status of job summaries that you want to watch.

Other

Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.

Connection

Establish a connection to your BambooHR account.Connecting BambooHR to Make

URL

Enter a path relative tohttps://api.bamboohr.com/api/gateway.php/<domain>. For example: /v1/meta/fields.

Note

For the list of available endpoints, refer to the BambooHR API Documentation.

Method

Select the HTTP method you want to use:

GET

to retrieve information for an entry.

POST

to create a new entry.

PUT

to update/replace an existing entry.

PATCH

to make a partial entry update.

DELETE

to delete an entry.

Headers

Enter the desired request headers. You don't have to add authorization headers; we've already done that for you.

Query String

Enter the request query string.

Body

Enter the body content for your API call.

The following API call returns all the company file categories from your BambooHR account:

URL:

/v1/files/view

Method:

GET

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Matches of the search can be found in the module's Output under Bundle > Body > Categories.

In our example, 3 categories were returned:

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